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sightscreen

noun

sightscreen

noun

Etymology From sight + screen.

1

Ball games, Cricket, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports A large screen, at each end of a cricket field, coloured to provide visual contrast to the cricket ball, to aid the batsman in seeing its movement through the air.

  • The batsman swung and thwacked it behind him over the sight-screens.1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 24:

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